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Career track · Investment Banking

Investment Banking

Banking runs on the comps, the precedents and the model a deal is argued from. You build all three, then follow a transaction to the waterfall that decides who is paid.

Investment Banking careers are found across firms like
  • Goldman SachsGoldman Sachs
  • JPMorganJ.P. Morgan
  • Morgan StanleyMorgan Stanley
  • Bank of AmericaBank of America
  • LazardLazard

Company names are shown as industry examples only; no partnership or affiliation is implied.

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  • Financial Accounting, Reporting & Analysis

    • Accounting System and Standards
    • Financial Statement Architecture
    • Income Statement, Profitability and Tax
    • Balance Sheet and Capital Employed
    • Cash Flow and Liquidity
    • Revenue, Receivables and Working Capital
    • Inventory, Cost Accounting and Margins
    • Fixed Assets, Leases and Intangibles
    • Debt, Equity and Financial Instruments
    • Consolidation and Business Combinations
    • Cash, Investments and Financial Assets
    • Financial Ratios and Performance Diagnostics
    • Earnings Quality, Red Flags and Forensics
    • Annual Reports, Notes and Disclosure Reading
    • Audit, Assurance and Reporting Reliability
  • Corporate Finance & Valuation

    • Corporate Finance Fundamentals
    • Time Value of Money
    • Cash Flow and Value Drivers
    • Cost of Capital
    • Capital Structure
    • Capital Budgeting
    • Working Capital Finance
    • Payout Policy
    • Valuation Fundamentals
    • Discounted Cash Flow
    • Relative Valuation
    • Transaction Valuation
    • Valuation Discipline
  • Transactions & Corporate Finance

    • Capital Raising
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • The Transaction Process, Governance and Communications
    • Transaction Documentation
    • Transaction Valuation
    • Deal Execution
    • Restructuring
    • Project Finance
    • Capital Allocation

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100 real Investment Banking interview questions from 46 firms, each with a model answer and the mistakes to avoid.

TSCSHWAsked at Truist Securities, Rothschild & Co and 44 more firms
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Accounting

Walk me through the three financial statements and how they connect.

Asked at Goldman Sachs
Valuation

Walk me through a DCF.

Asked at Goldman Sachs
M&A

Walk me through a merger model.

MSAsked at Morgan Stanley

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

100 Investment Banking brainteasers, from probability to mental maths. Try each one first, then read the worked solution.

  • 36 traced to firms
  • 12 topics
  • 29 hard ones
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Mental maths and countingWarm up

A stock falls 10% one day. How much does it need to rise the next day to get back to where it started?

A10%B11.1%C9.1%DIt depends on the price
Worked solution inside

Work the cases like a real round

100 Investment Banking case studies: a business, its numbers and a task. Work it on paper, then open the solution one step at a time.

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  • 12 topics
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Case 003Core

You have two minutes with selected financial data for two unnamed companies. Which industries are they in, and how do you know?

  1. 1What order do you read the numbers in?
  2. 2Why is Company B almost certainly selling to consumers?
  3. 3What do you say if you are not sure?
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